Arts Council England are looking for arts organisations to apply to become Random Acts Network Centres. These new centres will operate in partnership with Channel 4 and will play a supporting role in the mentoring of new talent from 16-24 year olds by providing education, training and production support. The intended outcome is for the Network Centres to produce around 120 short films per year.

5 partnerships will form each network within the five Arts Council Areas (London, North, Midlands, South East, South West). Films produced at the centres will air on the Random Acts strand on television which is anticipated to have a prominent time slot.

For more information and to make an application, see the Arts Council website. Watch some of the existing 500+ Random Acts film on the Random Acts website.

Deadline: 29 September

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What:
Art on the Underground aims to provide a top notch programme of contemporary art that enriches the Tube environment and their customers’ journey experience. Artist Michael Landy has been asking commuters for Acts of Kindness they’ve encountered on the Underground. As well as placing these stories in locations on the Tube, he has  also made a series of animations illustrating these which can be seen on Channel 4′s Random Acts website.

Acts of Kindness by Michael Landy

Bob & Roberta Smith are collaborating with Film Director Tim Newton for their Who is Community? series which will bring together a variety of different elements including a film telling the story of a fictional meeting between Pierre de Coubertin, father of the modern Olympics, and the German theorist Hannah Arendt.

Why we like it:
Brightening up the mundane circulation spaces in London, this project is perfect to counteract the otherwise rather dull environment.

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Random Acts is a new arts series currently showing nightly on Channel 4.

Television as art, rather than about art, Random Acts is providing a platform for both established and emerging visual artists to create their own pieces and experiment with form, unfettered by the conventions of traditional arts television. Spanning spoken word, dance, animation, fashion photography, video art and music.

The series has already created a stir with its distinctive approach to arts coverage – showcasing exciting new work from artists as varied as film-maker Emily Wardill, musicians Pepstar and Clean Bandit and dance team the BalletBoyz. Over the coming months the likes of Ghostpoet, David Shrigley and Sergei Polunin will all have original commissions in the strand.

Random Acts has also unearthed and given a platform to the most imaginative young talent in the UK, working with organisations such as Dazed & Confused, Vice, Tate Media, and Lupus Animation as well as developing partnerships with The Saatchi Gallery, Frieze, Film London and the Jarman Awards to uncover new artists.

If you haven’t seen the films yet, or you have missed the odd one take a look at the online gallery bringing together all of the films broadcast so far. You can also follow the chat on twitter by using #RandomActs.